As requested by the member states at the recently convened 15th NOWPAP Intergovernmental Meeting (IGM) in Moscow, RCU has started consultations with the Regional Activity Centres on the development of the NOWPAP Medium Term Strategy in order to enhance NOWPAP implementation. RCU has convened meetings with CEARAC and MERRAC in December 2010 and January 2011 to discuss their comments and suggestions for elaborating the strategy, while exchanged ideas with DINRAC and POMRAC as well through correspondence. After completion of the consultations, the strategy will be further modified and shared with NOWPAP national focal points for their comments aiming for its final approval at the 16th NOWPAP IGM in 2011. Once adopted at the 16th IGM, the strategy which sets directions for NOWPAP implementation in 2012-2017 will be used to prioritise future NOWPAP activities, including the next biennium programme of work of 2012-2013.
Implementation of NOWPAP contributes to the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-based Activities (GPA) in the Northwest Pacific region.